More charities join in 16th Heritage Run/Walk Sept. 7
The 16th Heritage Run/Walk in Long Grove involving 10 local charities will be held on Saturday, September 7. The 8:30 AM starting line and the pancake breakfast later will be at Kildeer School on Old McHenry Road in Long Grove. All are welcome to participate by foot or just to have breakfast and a good time while supporting multiple charitable interests.
This year there are two new charities participating, joining 8 others which have taken part in past years. Skin of Steel, NFP, advocates for melanoma cancer patients, supporting research and raising awareness of sun safety. The Anthony James Brust Memorial Foundation supports a scholarship fund to help students attend the Universal Technical Institute for training related to the automotive industry. It memorializes a young man who lost his life in a motorcycle accident in 2012.
Other charities partnering with the Rotary Club this year are the Center On Deafness, the Michael P. Savoca Memorial Foundation, seeking a cure for Pulmonary Fibrosis, the Christopher Steele Foundation, supporting research into brain tumors, OMNI Youth Services, Exodus World Service, aiding newly arrived refugee families, the Mothersʼ Milk Bank of the Western Great Lakes, and Faith Acres Foundation, which provides food and clothing to those in need in McHenry and Lake Counties.
These are all local charitable efforts which, working together but each
pursuing its own unique goals, present a colorful, spirited, and fun event. Each has its own promotional literature, individual sign-up, and distinctive colored T-shirt.
Lyle Staab, Hawthorn Woods, the President of the sponsoring Rotary Club, recently observed, “This is the broadest range of charitable interests to be represented in the Heritage Run/Walk. Rotarians are proud to be able to support these interests while pursuing the Rotary motto, Service Above Self.”
Information on how to sign up for this event my be found at the website, www.RotaryRace.org. When one signs up for the event online, an idea of which charity is to be supported should be in mind.
Or, call one of the phone numbers listed below.
Contact Information
Ryan Birch, Event Chair
847-955-9013
Lyle Staab, President
845-671-1223
More information about the Rotary Club of Long Grove, Kildeer, and Hawthorn Woods is available at www.RCLG.org. The Club holds a breakfast meeting almost weekly on Tuesdays at The Grove Country Club on Old 53 in Long Grove at 7:30 AM.
The Rotary Club of Long Grove, Kildeer, and Hawthorn Woods is a group of professional women and men who live orwork in Long Grove, Kildeer, Hawthorn Woods and the surrounding area. Rotary International is the oldest civic service club. The local club has sponsored and supported a number of local and international projects since its establishment almost 20 years ago. Notable projects in the past year have included contribution of ShelterBox tents to Haiti and Japan, contribution of 200 coats and knit caps to needy children in
the area, support of water and education projects in Africa, and cleanup of Route 53 in Long Grove. The club is also supporting the international Rotary goal of eliminating polio, which continues only in 2 countries but threatens to resurge if not totally defeated. With recent contributions of $355 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Rotary International is seeking $200 million in matching funds to continue the eradication goal set in 1985. For more about Polio Eradication: www.Rotary.org/endpolio